Jeffrey Rewrites Voyager: Eye of the Needle

I consider this episode to be typical of the problem with Star Trek: Voyager. A good setup, an interesting and engaging crisis, particularly excellent acting, and a muddled ending that seems to undermine everything.

Plus, this episode makes absolutely no sense less than halfway through the first season. I mean, no sense.

Plus, it's a "Voyager may get to go home!" episode. Which automatically means the audience is just waiting for some deus ex machina excuse for why it won't work, which is what happens with every single "Voyager may get to go home!" episode to the point where I can barely remember any other distinctions between them.

At least this one has Romulans, and I love me some Romulans.

Jeffrey Rewrites Voyager: Time And Again

Oh Gene dammit, another time travel episode? The second one in a row? You mean that there has only been one non-time-travel episode thus far in Voyager, and that was the pilot?

At least this one wasn't written by Brannon Braga. Last week I fixed Parallax by essentially removing all time travel elements from the story. There is no way to do that with this one. The whole plot revolves around time travel, the Prime Directive, and Janeway screwing up.

Luckily, the whole episode turns out to be a dream. Er, I mean an alternate timeline that never happened. So none of it matters! I say luckily, because you don't want it to matter.

Let's try to fix that. Let's try to turn this episode, declared the worst episode of Season 1 by Star Trek Magazine, into an episode that you want to happen... and then fix the ending so it actually does.